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YOHABLO

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4. Absolutely 100% right!!

Reply to Comatose Sphagetti (Original post)

Mon Jan 29, 2018, 10:06 PM

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January 20, 1981, the day when all this bullshit started. [View all] Comatose Sphagetti Jan 2018 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author sfwriter Jan 2018 #1

It began in that era Zorro Jan 2018 #11

I think it started with McCarthy. Initech Jan 2018 #14

Earlier Woodycall Jan 2018 #21

And there are at least two generations that don't know life otherwise crazycatlady Jan 2018 #2

My extended family has tried to keep the younger gens up to Z , informed of the past lunasun Jan 2018 #10

No children here crazycatlady Jan 2018 #12

I just gave a middle school nephew The People Speak DVD by Howard Zinn . One of my kids got e on lunasun Jan 2018 #15

They're 3 and 5 right now crazycatlady Jan 2018 #40

Just love of animals is a good thing to expose them to imo . I wish them well lunasun Jan 2018 #42

Don't forget his famous line Ohiogal Jan 2018 #3

Lady parts and corporate welfare. progressoid Jan 2018 #18

Absolutely 100% right!! YOHABLO Jan 2018 #4

November 22, 1963. n/t LarryNM Jan 2018 #5

THIS RandomAccess Jan 2018 #30

Elements of it have always been with us. unblock Jan 2018 #6

Exactly I have been saying for a long time gopiscrap Jan 2018 #7

My granddaughters elementary school Freddie Jan 2018 #8

Imo yes. Don't forget the racist part of his campaign too. lunasun Jan 2018 #9

One could make the argument it happened on August 4, 1987 Brother Buzz Jan 2018 #13

Yes Another part of the Reagan legacy .... Reagan's Veto Kills Fairness Doctrine Bill 1987 lunasun Jan 2018 #17

I partly agree but I would add that Oliver North was also a significant moment StevieM Jan 2018 #16

I see it as starting with Watergate - endless tit for tat after that. Politics got visibly really NRaleighLiberal Jan 2018 #19

started with nixon AllaN01Bear Jan 2018 #20

I blame Ford pardoning Nixon. tclambert Jan 2018 #22

Agreed! Scalded Nun Jan 2018 #23

It's a virus that has plagued mankind for ages Mr. Ected Jan 2018 #24

When I was 18, my first election, I voted for Carter. BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #25

He deserved the same fate as Kennedy, but it barely fazed him. LeftInTX Jan 2018 #33

Yeah, and John Lennon was killed the same year blocks from where I lived BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #39

August 23, 1971-- the day the Powell Memo was published. mtngirl47 Jan 2018 #26

YES! TwistOneUp Jan 2018 #27

Yep cilla4progress Jan 2018 #28

Reagan was what we got after Nixon shadowmayor Jan 2018 #29

My parents had a subscription to Time magazine and I noticed when Carter was president betsuni Jan 2018 #32

Carter did not have a WH photographer LeftInTX Jan 2018 #35

Thanks, didn't know that. betsuni Jan 2018 #38

Please. It was never better bsiebs Jan 2018 #31

Yes, there are many bad things in our past, but.. mvd Jan 2018 #34

Reconstruction JI7 Jan 2018 #36

So true. I've watched it all. n/t susanna Jan 2018 #37

Yes, Included in the "resistance".. disillusioned73 Jan 2018 #41

"A day that will live in infamy" is what comes to mind. raven mad Jan 2018 #43